People

Signal File: This week highlights how the workplace is adapting to Gen Z

From dress codes to leadership expectations, this week’s signals show how Gen Z has new expectations on professionalism, stability and what it takes to feel supported at work 

The WORKTECH Index: new survey tool to help firms improve experience

Companies recognise the challenge of boosting employee experience but often struggle to marshal the right data insights to effect change. A new survey tool aims to bridge that gap

Nordic mindset: Scandinavia sets a blueprint for human-aligned workspaces

From Copenhagen to Stockholm, the Scandinavian WORKTECH events redefined workplace innovation around the mind, offering a clear vision of a truly human-aligned future

After the return: can the office really raise levels of performance?

Bringing people back to the office is one thing. Improving productivity once there is another. A new report looks at the evidence for and against in-office working as a lever for productivity

Signal file: what this week’s headlines reveal about rising cost of participation

This week’s stories reveal how access to jobs, belonging, information and opportunity is fracturing across the modern workplace

Signal file: This week’s signals highlight where work still falls short

From stealth layoffs to weekend overwork, unsustainable pensions and the AI Boss Effect, this week’s signals show where workplaces still fall short on trust, balance and equity

Outcomes, not outputs: how law firms can build a high-performance workplace

As law firms modernise their offices, challenges are emerging around how to deliver flexible, tech-enabled environments that employees actually want to use

How building social infrastructure can solve workplace isolation

Loneliness doesn’t vanish at the office – it can spread, drain productivity and drive people to quit. Building real connections at work is now a business imperative